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1992-93 Annual Report
Peter F. Dorman
The sixty-ninth season of the Epigraphic Survey opened on October 6, 1992, coinciding precisely with the beginning of the University of Chicago's second century: the inaugural inspection of Luxor Temple and the adjoining fragment blockyards took place at 1:30 a.m., Chicago time, in the first twenty-four hours of the University's next hundred years. With the successful conclusion of work on the Opet reliefs, the chief goal of the 1992-93 season was the completion of epigraphy on all remaining areas of the Colonnade Hall, as well as the commencement of epigraphic work on the small temple of Amun at Medinet Habu.
Figure 1. Frontispiece for the publication of the Opet festival: the northern entrance to the Colonnade Hall at Luxor Temple.
Figure 2. In one of the drawings approved for publication during the season of 1992-93, King Horemhab (usurped from Ay) offers to Amun and Mut-Bastet on the doorjamb of the northern portal. The right side of the scene is concealed by blocks of the later doorway of Philip Arrhidaeus.
The season itself opened rather slowly, due to the yet-incomplete renovation of the residence building (see below). Although the library and offices were fully functioning as soon as we arrived, the staff had to move into local hotels for the first two weeks of work; the kitchen was not fully commissioned and operating until October 20th. The earthquake that rocked Cairo on October 12th had little effect on Upper Egypt, but we felt a light tremor even as far south as Luxor: the three hanging overhead lights in the library were set eerily moving in slow, concentric circles. Fortunately, there was no apparent damage to monuments in the Theban area. The growing tensions caused by sporadic acts of terrorism in Egypt this year were reflected in the gradual decrease of tourists evident in Luxor as the season wore on. The central provinces of Minya and Asyut in middle Egypt were declared officially off limits to Americans, but Aswan and Luxor remained on the approved tourist itinerary. Despite these uncertainties, we were visited by over a thousand guests during the season, and at least sixty-seven library tours were given to tour groups and individuals stopping by. The only real danger to our own property was caused by two police guards stationed outside our gate who, in laying small fires to warm themselves at night, inadvertently set fire to one of the nearby ficus trees, which luckily collapsed onto the corniche rather than onto our sleeping gateman.
Figure 3. Epigrapher Debbie Darnell collates the formal graffito of the High Priest of Amun Paiankh, carved on the facade of the Colonnade Hall.
At Luxor Temple, the primary challenge was documenting the great facade and northeastern corner of the Colonnade Hall, which are among the best preserved architectural features. The facade of the Hall was apparently not decorated until after Tutankhamun's death, when his successor, Ay, added three large-scale registers of offering scenes carved in light raised relief; subsequently, Horemhab usurped Ay's cartouches. The facade was radically altered when Ramesses II added a porticoed court directly in front of the Colonnade Hall. Because the decorative registration of the new court did not match that of the Colonnade facade, Ramesses simply erased the scenes of Ay located below the portico roof and recarved new offering scenes in sunk relief, featuring the three gods of Karnak: Amun, Mut, and Khonsu. Epigraphers Richard Jasnow and John and Debbie Darnell, together with artists Tina Di Cerbo and Ray Johnson, worked over this crucial area for several months: the original Ay reliefs on the doorjamb of the northern portal (see fig. 2) and above the portico roof (accessible only by tall ladders), as well as the scenes below the roof, recut by Ramesses II. The most urgent task was to verify the traces of the earlier scenes of Ay and match them to the extant relief above the portico roof (mentioned earlier by Lanny Bell in the Oriental Institute Annual Report 1980-81, pp. 12-13). Ray worked on a 1:50 scale reconstruction of the facade, indicating not only the original decorative program of Ay but also the placement of block fragments that belong to the northern face of the Colonnade.
The facade shows evidence of considerable reuse even after the addition of the court of Ramesses II. Merneptah added a horizontal band of dedicatory inscription below his father's reliefs, but this was subsequently erased. The lower facade was to become a favored location for other kinds of votive inscriptions after the end of the New Kingdom.
Figure 4. Epigraphers John Darnell and Richard Jasnow and artist Tina Di Cerbo examine a graffito of Amun-Kamutef, carved next to a marginal inscription of Merneptah.
One of the more elaborate graffiti, which approximates the scale and quality of a formal relief, is central to discussions of the end of the Ramesside era. Here the High Priest of Amun Pinodjem is shown, grandson of the infamous High Priest Herihor who claimed pharaonic titles in his reliefs at Khonsu Temple at Karnak. Although the graffito has already been discussed by Edward Wente (among others) in his preface to The Temple of Khonsu, Vol. 1, the Epigraphic Survey is making the first definitive record of the figures and text (see fig. 3). Higher up the wall, an inscription made by the High Priest of Amun Sheshonk, son of Osorkon I, has been recorded; he was later to become coregent with his father as Sheshonk II of the Twenty-second Dynasty. A sizable graffito depicting the divine child Khonsu, tucked in between the much larger figures of Amun and Mut, can be dated to the Ptolemaic period, to judge from the name of the dedicator, Khonsu-Ij. Other miscellaneous additions, clustered around the base of the wall, include later graffiti of Amun-Kamutef and Mut (see fig. 4), small kingly faces, and a text naming a person called Miw-sheri, "little cat."
Figure 5. Thick plaster on this block fragment preserves an exact impression of part of an offering scene of Ramesses II, long since destroyed. A "heaven" sign and the phrase, "[Words] spoken [by Amen-Ra], lord [of the thrones of the two lands … ]," can be recognized.
The northern portal, leading into the Colonnade, also exhibits a variety of reuse. The recessed thicknesses of the doorway, originally decorated by Ramesses II, were entirely filled in with slim ashlar blocks, which were then adorned with identical reliefs in the name of Sety II. In examining a loose block fragment containing a cartouche frieze of Sety II, John Darnell happened to notice that the back of the block was covered with a thick layer of plaster that still bore the imprint of the original Ramesses II relief (see fig. 5). The combination of the front and rear decoration will enable the Epigraphic Survey to reconstruct the location of this block within a few centimeters of its original position in the door thickness. Sety II also modified the northern portal by adding smaller door jambs, of which two blocks are still extant; this was in turn replaced by a similar structure erected by the Macedonian ruler Philip Arrhidaeus.
Figure 6. Artist Margaret De Jong pencils deteriorating block fragments behind Luxor Temple.
In the Hall proper, Tina, Ray, and Sue Osgood continued work on the final reinking of the great offering scenes of the columns, and Debbie made a new survey of the cartouches of various kings that adorn the shafts of the columns. These royal names and the great architrave inscriptions will be finally checked in the season to come.
The block fragments that belong to the destroyed upper registers of the Hall continued to be a priority, especially those that are known to be deteriorating. Over fifty enlargements were made of fragments that are in poor condition, and artists Margaret De Jong and Jay Heidel began the task of penciling and inking them, before more details are worn away (see fig. 6). Another fine addition to the Opet reliefs was discovered by Ray in the Turin Museum: a fragment of the procession entering the precinct of Luxor. By courtesy of Professor Roveri-Donadoni, a photograph was sent to Chicago House, and the inked fragment will be included in the Opet publication.
Figure 7. Viewed from above, field director Peter Dorman collates the base of one of the pair statues of Amun and Mut in the Colonnade Hall.
At the small temple of Amun at Medinet Habu, epigraphic work got into higher gear (see fig. 8). Sue, Tina, Margaret, and Jay penciled twenty-three drawings for summer work, and the epigraphers undertook collations on five inked drawings. In fact, the first drawings from the small temple will be ready for director's checks at the beginning of next season.
We enjoyed the presence of no fewer than three photographers this year, spaced several months apart due to scheduling constraints. Sue Lezon stayed at Chicago House during the first three months, Cecile Keefe arrived for five weeks through the month of January, and Tom Van Eynde finished up the season in March. Their combined efforts were prodigious, and rather typical for a busy season at Chicago House: 68 full drawing enlargements were made, as well as another 52 fragment enlargements; 74 drawings were bleached after inking; 40 were blueprinted for collation; and roughly 650 negatives were printed for file purposes. These purely routine chores were supplemented by several special projects. Sue duplicated another 222 deteriorating negatives and produced almost 770 images for the Epigraphic Survey's new series of photographic portfolios (see below). She also made over two hundred prints of block fragments that will appear in the plates of the Opet publication. Cecile undertook new photography in Luxor Temple, taking several detail views of the facade and of 164 additional Colonnade fragments in the blockyards behind the temple. Tom spent several days at Medinet Habu reshooting several of the peripteral pillars of the small temple, photographed all the finished drawings that were carried back to Chicago, and ensured that artists would have plenty of new work on hand for the commencement of next season.
Figure 8. Artist Sue Osgood pencils a brilliantly painted scene in one of the interior chapels at the small temple of Amun at Medinet Habu.
Ellie Smith continued her exceptional volunteer work in the photographic archives, keeping up with the seemingly endless tasks of filing, labeling, and sleeving new Chicago House negatives and newly-identified prints and negatives from the Labib Habachi archives. She compiled various lists on the photographic archives computer to categorize the Medinet Habu and Karnak graffiti negatives, the 5 x 7 glass plate negatives, numerous rolls of 35 mm black and white negatives, and interior views of the small temple at Medinet Habu. Ellie also typed in a separate registry for 1,700 block fragments, which will now provide information on block identification, date, presumed location, and type of scene-a permanent reference for future work on the fragments.
The Epigraphic Survey was extremely fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of Jean and Helen Jacquet for another several weeks during the winter. Jean completed sketching elevations of the northern portal of the Colonnade Hall, which will be used in the second volume on Luxor Temple, and Helen again lent her unerring eye to the ongoing process of identifying sites, objects, and personalities in the photographs of the Habachi archive.
In addition to her epigrapher's duties, Debbie Darnell oversaw the management of the library and was assisted again by Richard and John, particularly in the ordering process. Ellie and volunteer Nan Ray were both instrumental in helping to catalogue the 229 new books that were accessioned, bringing the library registry up to 16,315. Debbie also updated the monograph series listing, which had not been maintained consistently over the years, and with a burst of correspondence tracked down orders that were still outstanding and identified gaps in various series: as a result, nearly all missing items were received. She also conducted a review of our important map collection, which contains many rare pieces. With the help of Ellie and Nan, forty-one fragile maps were encapsulated in protective mylar. Chicago House continues to be a place that welcomes international research; visiting scholars to the library totaled 237 this season.
Paul Bartko again oversaw the administrative functions of the Epigraphic Survey with skill and panache and, with the assistance of Kathy Dorman during the winter months, he ran the household and kitchen as well. The Chicago House Bulletin, written by contributing members of the staff and formatted three times a year by Paul, is now finishing its fourth year and continues to be widely read by our friends all over the world. Kaylin Goldstein expertly managed the Epigraphic Survey office at the Oriental Institute in our absence, responded quickly to our pleas for assistance, mailed out our winter Bulletin, and served as a crucial liaison with the Institute. During my own three-week absence from Luxor in November, Richard very ably filled in as acting director. We were also able to assist several other expeditions in facilitating their work or various repair jobs: Carol Meyer's Bir Umm Fawakhir project and John and Debbie Darnell's Luxor-Farshût Desert Road Survey (see their accounts elsewhere in this Report); the Amenmesse Royal Tomb project of Earl Ertman and Otto Schaden; the Polish-Egyptian Mission to Deir el-Bahri; the Belgian Mission to Elkab; Memphis State University's epigraphic study of the Hypostyle Hall, directed by William Murnane; and the work of the American University of Cairo in the Valley of the Kings, led by Kent Weeks.
Carlotta Maher, our irreplaceable development assistant, valiantly spurred on the Epigraphic Survey's fundraising efforts, as she has for several years past, in particular keeping in personal touch with our numerous Chicago House supporters, helping to organize our one-day open house in February, and promoting two planned exhibitions of prints from our glass plate negative collection, one in Chicago and the other in Cairo. Nan Ray also assisted her in several of these endeavors, both during her stay at the house and later, in the summer, as well.
Several major receptions punctuated the progress of the season. Approximately eighty members of the World Business Council, accompanied by Lanny Bell, received a library tour and courtyard reception, as did a group from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An especially welcome event was the arrival of the Oriental Institute tour to Egypt, which marked Professor Edward Wente's first visit to Chicago House in almost ten years. Toward the end of the season, Senator Patrick Leahy and several of his staff visited Chicago House for dinner and spent a day in Luxor touring the ancient monuments on both sides of the Nile. One especially memorable party was hosted by the Polish-Egyptian Mission to Deir el-Bahri, held at their dig house in the western Valley of the Kings and climaxed by a magnificent stroll by full moon through the deserted landscape to the foot of the central peak, the Gurn, that dominates the ancient necropolis.
On January 28, the American Ambassador, His Excellency Robert J. Pelletreau, Jr., and Pamela Pelletreau hosted a grand evening reception in honor of Chicago House at their residence in Zamalek, which was the highlight of our Cairo season, attended by many of our donors, business friends, and professional colleagues. Forty-five Cairenes subsequently visited Luxor on February 13 for our annual Friends of Chicago House tour, abbreviated to just one day this year due to the interruptions of the continuing renovation on our facilities. Tours of our field research at Luxor and Medinet Habu were augmented by what has become a traditional black-tie gala dinner and dance at Chicago House, enlivened by old tangos and waltzes played from the original 1930s record collection (entirely 78 rpm) that still resides in the music room.
Figure 9. The foundations of the new staff and guest residence rise on the former site of Healey House.
The last twelve months have seen significant progress in the publication of the reliefs of the Opet procession, which will comprise the subject matter of our first volume from Luxor Temple, Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple Volume 1: The Processional Festival of Opet in the Colonnade Hall; it will be the largest (and heaviest) volume ever produced by the Epigraphic Survey, due to the unprecedented number of fold-out plates demanded by the horizontal format of the reliefs. During the summer of 1992, the finished drawings were photographed at the reduced scales necessary for assembling each of the 130 folio plates. Thanks to registrar Ray Tindel, who kindly made space available to us in the basement of the Oriental Institute, artist Sue Osgood was able to undertake the complicated task of assembling the individual plates, some of which contain over three dozen reduced drawing prints. With the addition of the printed caption information, this painstaking task was virtually completed in the spring of 1993, and we expect the volume will go to press this winter. In April 1993, the Epigraphic Survey was extremely fortunate to receive a generous award from the Getty Grant Program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which will entirely cover the costs of the first two volumes from Luxor Temple and will help in offsetting the expenses of future folios as well.
Figure 10. The walls of the photographic laboratory are stripped of their cracked plaster coating in preparation for refinishing. The medallion over the doorway, representing the face of a camera has been preserved intact.
In December 1992 the Epigraphic Survey published a unique set of photographic portfolios entitled Lost Egypt, an idea that was first broached by photographer Sue Lezon. The glass plate collection from which these portfolio images were made was purchased by Lanny Bell in Luxor in 1987 from a local vendor, with the purpose of augmenting the photographic archives of the Epigraphic Survey (see Lanny's account in the Oriental Institute Annual Report 1986/87, pp. 7-8). With the assistance of funds from the Friends of Chicago House tour of 1988 and the Getty Grant Program, Sue has undertaken the cleaning and conservation of the entire collection, as well as the production of the prints for the portfolio series. Unlike other methods of "restriking" from old negatives, the glass plates have been exposed individually to direct sunlight on printing-out paper. Depending on the density of the negative and the strength of the sun, exposure times varied between five minutes and two hours, resulting in minuscule differences among the prints. Each print has been toned in a gold chloride solution, determining the final color of the image. Great care has been taken to produce prints that would have resembled closely those that a traveler might have purchased while journeying through Egypt in the nineteenth century. The portfolios each hold ten matted prints in a hand-bound traycase, together with a catalogue brochure containing essays on nineteenth century photography written jointly by John Darnell, Sue Lezon, and the present author. The portfolios may be ordered from the Publications Sales Office at the Oriental Institute.
The renovation of the buildings within the Chicago House complex has absorbed an enormous amount of energy and time on the part of many of the Epigraphic Survey's staff members during the past year. The sixteen-month project had to be carefully orchestrated by phases, so that the epigraphic mission of the Survey would not be unduly interrupted. With the approval of contracts in June 1992, the construction officially got underway in mid-July, and two staff members, James Riley and Sue Lezon, consented to brave the very worst of the summer heat in Luxor by acting as the Epigraphic Survey's representatives on site. Without their supervision and constant support, it is doubtful that the critical first phase of the renovation would have been completed on time. Another crucial participant was Engineer Girgis Samuel of Luxor, who facilitated much of the necessary permissions in Luxor with the City Council and who has proved a steadfast friend throughout the entire construction process. They were also assisted by a most capable supervisor from Bechtel Egypt, Engineer Ayman Moussa. The first summer phase was aimed at improvements in the residence building and in basic support systems. In only ten weeks the interior of the residence building was entirely repainted and retiled. Solar heating replaced the ancient water heater outside our kitchen door that often smoked uncontrollably-and occasionally caught fire. The kitchen was equipped with stainless steel butagas and electric ovens, a dishwasher, and large-capacity refrigeration equipment. The back gate, long closed to traffic, was reopened and a transformer and a new generator were installed on the property.
Figure 11. In readiness for planned renovation, the Chicago House library stands empty for the first time in sixty-two years. One of the last visitors this season was a cat, puzzled by the doors left open to facilitate removal of the books.
For the first summer's work, the residence had to be stripped of its contents, and the task of organizing the reoccupation in October was given to Richard and Tina, who did a magnificent job, with assistance from all the staff. Every piece of furniture had to be washed and polished, rugs were beaten, kitchen pots were scraped until they gleamed, and even the white plaster cast from the tomb of Kheruef, which hangs in the dining room, was cleaned by Jay. There were nonetheless several bugs to be worked out: the hot water routing system did not function well at first, several refrigerator shelves suddenly collapsed in the kitchen, certain cooling units proved to be defective, some water leaks were detected, electrical circuits in the library were unaccountably tripped, and we encountered occasional three-day telephone outages. These were gradually corrected, and the greatest luxury we have enjoyed this season is the constant availability of heat, hot water, and electricity.
In the fall, Engineer Ahmed el-Refaei of Bechtel Egypt was assigned as site supervisor for the renovation project, which was focused during the field season on the outbuildings of Chicago House that the staff did not directly need to pursue the epigraphic work. Ahmed has proved to be both an outstanding administrator and a gifted site engineer, and it is primarily his efforts that have brought the construction through to its final stages. During the winter months, Healey House was demolished and the foundations were poured for a larger guest house, which will be used for supplementary staff housing as well (see fig. 10). The storerooms, workrooms, ladder magazines, and laundry area were renovated and repainted, necessitating the wholesale removal of obsolete equipment and personal belongings, some of which had not seen the light of day for forty years. James Riley carefully sorted and organized this enormous pile of material, and our house engineer, Saleh Shehat, sold unusable or unwanted items to local scavengers from the town. The boundary walls were also raised and strengthened to increase security.
The field season officially ended on April 1, 1993, but preparations had to begin in mid-March for the complete evacuation of the library. Once again, the unsurpassable talents of Richard and Tina were enlisted. With a good deal of forethought and the help of some movable carts manufactured in-house, they succeeded in just eight days in moving almost 17,000 books and shelving out of the library and into two staff suites in the residence. The contents of the library were followed gradually by office furniture, desks, computers, and drawing tables, as the artists and epigraphers continued to work up to the last day of the season. The library building, photographic laboratory, and the grounds were turned over to the contractors on the last day of the season. The final phase of work is scheduled to finish on October 1, 1993.
Figure 12. A staff photograph on the occasion of a visit by Ambassador and Mrs. Pelletreau. Seated, first row: John Darnell, Debbie Darnell, Sue Osgood, Kathy Dorman, Paul Bartko; seated, second row: Emily Dorman, Richard Jasnow, Ray Johnson, Jay Heidel, Carlotta Maher, Margaret Dorman; standing, left to right: Pamela Pelletreau, Helen Jacquet, Margaret De Jong, Henri Riad, Jean Jacquet, Tina Di Cerbo, Robert Pelletreau, Peter Dorman.
The staff this season consisted of the author as field director; Richard Jasnow and John and Deborah Darnell, epigraphers; W. Raymond Johnson, Christina Di Cerbo, Susan Osgood, James Heidel, and Margaret De Jong, artists; Susan Lezon, Cecile Keefe, and Thomas Van Eynde, photographers; James Riley, photographic assistant and engineering advisor; Jean and Helen Jacquet, field architects; Kathy Dorman and Paul Bartko, house and office administrators; Jill Carlotta Maher, assistant to the director; Elinor Smith, photographic archives assistant; and Saleh Suleiman Shehat, our irreplaceable chief engineer, whose advice and services to the Epigraphic Survey have been inestimable. We were very fortunate, too, that our invaluable friend and colleague Dr. Henri Riad was in residence for most of the season, to assist us in the areas of public relations and local contacts; he also continued to administer the Labib Habachi Archives on behalf of the Epigraphic Survey. To all of these people, who had to endure inordinate inconvenience in addition to the rigors of the field work, I express my appreciation and gratitude.
We are especially grateful to the members of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization who contributed directly to the success of the season: Dr. Mohammed Bakr, Chairman of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization; Dr. Mutawa Balboush, Supervisor of Antiquities for Upper Egypt; Dr. Mohammed el-Saghir, Director of Antiquities for Southern Upper Egypt; Dr. Mohammed Nasr, Chief Inspector of Karnak and Luxor; Abd el-Hamid Marouf, Inspector of Karnak; Dr. Sayid el-Hegazy, Chief Inspector of Qurna; and Dr. Madeleine el-Mallah, Director of the Luxor Museum.
In addition to those mentioned for specific contributions, I gratefully express thanks to many other colleagues and friends: the United States Ambassador to Egypt, His Excellency Robert J. Pelletreau, Jr., and Mrs. Pamela Pelletreau; Wes Egan, Marjorie Ransom, Frank Ward, and Paul Thorn of the United States Embassy in Cairo; Ashraf and Henny Ghonima; Tom and Ellen Granger; Nadia Mostafa; Mohammed Ozalp; David Maher; Mark Rudkin; Lucia Woods Lindley and Daniel Lindley, Jr.; Jack Josephson; Gerry Vincent; Louis Byron, Jr.; Karl Seyfried and Friederike Kampp of Heidelberg University; Terry Walz, Mark Easton, Ibrahim Sadek, and Amira Khattab of the American Research Center in Egypt; Fathi Salib of American Express in Luxor; and Cynthia Echols, Evada Waller, and Florence Bonnick of the Oriental Institute. Three institutions in particular have rendered fundamental assistance and support that have proved essential to the success of the season: the Amoco Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and the Xerox Foundation.
As always, we will be very pleased to welcome members of the Oriental Institute and other friends to Chicago House from October 1 to April 1. Please write to us in advance, to let us know the dates of your visit, and call us as soon as you arrive in Luxor, so that we can confirm a time that is mutually convenient. Our address in Egypt: Chicago House, Corniche el-Nil, Luxor, Arab Republic of Egypt. For the second year in a row, our unpredictable friends in the local telephone office in Luxor have decided to make our lives even more interesting by changing our fax number: 381620 (direct dial from the United States: 011-20-95-381620). Our telephone number-at least for the time being-remains the same as last year: 011-20-95-372525.
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A learning disabled woman went out for a night of karaoke and fun with a group of friends June 16, 2011.
"(That night) ended in pain, fear, blood and misery after being raped by a stranger. That stranger is Nsoni Mpulamasaka," Lake County Assistant State's Attorney Reginald Mathews said.
Mpulamasaka, 27, of Waukegan, is on trial this week for aggravated criminal sexual assault of the Evanston woman.
The last of the jurors were selected Tuesday and attorneys made their opening statements, laying out two different versions of what happened that June evening.
The woman was out with friends for karaoke night at The Lantern in Lake Forest, Mathews said.
"The defendant was attempting to infiltrate their group. As the group left the parking lot, several friends were planning (to get) a meal at Denny's in Highland Park. Once again, the defendant infiltrated the group and invited himself to the Denny's," Mathews said.
Mpulamasaka joined the woman and her friends for dinner and attempted to get the phone numbers of some of the woman's friends.
He stayed behind after all the woman's friends drove away in their vehicles, got inside the woman's car without being invited and then took advantage of the Evanston woman, Mathews said.
"He told her, 'Don't tell anyone' and drove away. After (the victim) left the parking lot in pain and bleeding, she drove to her mother's house (in Highland Park)," Mathews said.
The woman wound up driving herself to Evanston Hospital and needed surgery to repair the injuries she incurred from the attack, Mathews said.
Hospital staff did a rape kit and called Highland Park police to investigate.
Mpulamasaka denied to police being at Denny's or meeting any girls that night, Mathews said. Mpulamasaka was arrested and charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault.
Both the alleged rape victim and Mpulamasaka were married at the time of the incident, defense attorney Jed Stone said.
"You'll hear from the events of June 16, especially in the context of marriage — they are an embarrassment, but not a crime," Stone said.
Stone said the woman "invited" his client into her car in the Highland Park Denny's parking lot.
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Mpulamasaka is a native of Zambia. He came to America from Africa to get a bachelor's and master's degree in medical science, Stone said.
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Why would you use your name unless you are famous that's an awful idea just awful
I have a new blog where I post short fantasy stories every day. I don't know if I made a huge mistake by using matthewdellar.com instead of something that better suggests the topic, like something with "fantasy" in the name.
From Google, I learned:
1. If it's a personal blog where you spill your thoughts, you can use your name.
2. If you intend to monetize, in general, don't use your name.
I don't know which of those two the blog is for. I intend to sell books in the future, but the short stories I post are completely free.
Writer's Digest holds that writers should register their names as domain names as soon as possible, so I did that. Only then did I learn that there was another side to that advice. So what do I do? I don't have a big enough following to be hurt if I switched domains, and I have the money to do so, but I don't want to switch if possible because I've heard that having your name attached to a blog can help you get published.
This may be the wrong site for the question. I'm not active on any others, though, nor do I know any writers in real life to contact for advice. Google isn't helping either.
Why would you use your name unless you are famous that's an awful idea just awful
I'd get this moved to the not spam part of MT, Matt.
My CC thread - Updated 01/30/14
My AA thread - Updated 03/04/14
Where else does it go? My blog is fiction writing, but I don't think it goes in the writer's area because this is more a marketing question. General discussion, maybe? Maybe. Jubeh, if this is in the wrong place, would you move it if it's no trouble, please?
Half the comments I read off various Google searches said almost exactly that and the other half said it was fine. Maybe I should just start tallying the answers from those sites?Why would you use your name unless you are famous that's an awful idea just awful
i think the only problem with using your real name is if it makes it easy to find out info on where you live and stuff. if you guard all of your other information and the only thing that peoiple have access to is your work and your name, it should be fine.
Using just your own name doesn't tell people what the blog is about. You want something that will make people want to check the blog out.
@Jubeh - I agreed with you at first, but I just did some more research and am still on the fence.
@WRA - I don't think that's much of a problem with me. I'm not posting anything that would tempt anyone to assassinate me.
@JJJorgie - Very true. That's one of the reasons I agreed with Jubeh at first. Again, still on the fence for the following reasons:
From Sitepoint:
This, I thought, was kind of a selfish ego thing, but it's a valid point now that I look at it. If another person with my name or something close to it establishes success under that name, I'd have a terrible time getting my own name known and differentiated from his. I aspire to be an author, so my name would be fairly important to business. I kinda hate how writers' names are bigger than the titles of their books these days, but it's an important selling point.Sometimes, it isn't a bad idea to register several similar domain names. If you have "yourname.com", register "yourname.net" so no one else takes it. You can register your full company name and a shorter, easier to remember version. Some people even register common misspellings of their company's name. (You don't need a separate Web page for each. Several domains can point to the same Website.)
From Steve Pavlina's forum:
My site is for writing, not me--but it's my writing all the same. I don't plan on guest bloggers, nor do I plan on posting anything but short fantasy.Pro - It centers your website around you. Many blogs and websites appear lifeless if they are just about a niche. Making your blog share the same name seems to center your blog more around your personality and identity than topic. Steve's website really isn't personal development it is infused with the philosophy and ideas that make up Steve. People like brands that have human personalities.
Con - You aren't going to have new visitors doing web searches through your name. Plus this personality comes at a cost, it makes it more difficult to add guest bloggers, or content that doesn't vibe with your personality.
From Dailyblogtips:
I fit the description of this scenario. But:Scenario 2: You want to start a blog to promote your personal brand or your services. This could include writers, consultants, painters, lawyers and so on.
Ideal domain name: YourName.com. Keep in mind that in this scenario I am not talking about professionals who want to promote their companies. For those a domain with the name of the company is obviously preferred. I am talking about people who make money thanks to their personal brands, like Seth Godin.
On the other side of the fence, I'm not a professional writer, and no, my name is not recognized, nor is my blog promoting finished, published books I've written. I think it could be prudent to establish a name before using my name as a domain name. My name doesn't tell anyone what I write or what the site is about. Contrary to that point, I don't know the domain names of many of the sites I visit regularly. I recognize about half the sites I go to by their content, not what they're called.
In the end, I just don't know. I get paid tomorrow, and I should make a decision by then to either put some money toward a new domain or keep what I have.


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English poet John Donne said, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent." More than 350 years later, his words still hold true.
It takes more than one focused person to have a successful religious organization. Each individual must be committed to a group effort for an organization to work and work well. And there's nothing like teambuilding to instill the importance of working together.
The concept of teamwork is not something to be taken lightly. Turnover costs nationwide for organizations are estimated at $140 billion annually, and turnover rates are 17.5 percent less at work sites where employees feel supported by their organizations, says Theresa Cherry, director of sales and marketing for Naples, Fla. — based Odyssey Experiences, a nationwide training, teambuilding, and leadership adventure company.
Effective organizations are goal-oriented and successful because everyone concentrates on specific objectives. These concepts can be taught and reinforced through teambuilding activities.
Mind Over Matter
There was a time when teambuilding events were held for one reason: to have fun. That is no longer the case. Nowadays, teambuilding activities must show a return on investment.
"Teambuilding is very much about building an integrated network of people. It's about breaking down barriers to have folks work together more effectively across boundaries," says Dick Eaton, founder and chief energizing officer for Medford, Mass. — based Leapfrog Innovations, a teambuilding and leadership development company.
Unfortunately, the word "teambuilding" is often used loosely. Some planners allocate a few hours for beach Olympics or a bowling tournament in the name of teambuilding, but those are really more of a social activity.
"Recreational programs create such a shallow level of teambuilding that by the time the group gets back to the office, most of the skills garnered disappear," explains Cherry. "A true teambuilding program is built around teaching points like trust, communication, reliance, and all the components that make a group a team. At the same time, the program has to ensure that employees buy in and lay the right foundation to integrate new behaviors to be carried back to the workplace."
"Teambuilding is a continuous process," says Tim Buividas of the Lisle, Ill. — based Corporate Learning Institute. "We are seeing many more intact teams requesting strategic teambuilding as a means to help teams cope with our new 'normal' work environment of multitasking, heavier workloads, and stress."
A successful training activity must emphasize problem-solving that requires the entire group — not just two people — to work together.
To ensure that the ideal teambuilding program is created for your group, you have to assess the group's physical prowess, the average age, the number of people, the breakdown of men and women, and any physical limitations, including whether anyone is pregnant or overweight. It is also imperative that you clearly state your objective. Common i sues are communication, trust, and reliance.
Here is one informative teambuilding case study that shows how a combination of social interaction, experiential learning, and fun can reap significant rewards.
It's a Jungle Out There
Milwaukee-based HellermannTyton, a world leader in providing systems and solutions for networking, routing, identifying, and managing wire, cable, and components, held its annual global marketing meeting in Naples, Fla., last year when the group of 60 senior global executives was "transported" to the middle of a South American jungle. It was achieved by using Odyssey Experiences, a company specializing in teambuilding, located at the NGALA private reserve, which is also home to giraffes, leopards, chimpanzees, and crocodiles.
"You would never think we were still in Naples, but we were," says Terry Tuttle, vice president of marketing for HellermannTyton.
The company had turned to Odyssey Experiences to craft a program that would not only help its senior leaders to enhance communication and trust across global boundaries, but also to achieve leadership development goals.
"As an international group, we interact with each other over the phone, via e-mail, and through market-focused and strategy-based meetings, but get together as an entire marketing management group only once a year. There are cultural differences and language barriers that teambuilding helps us to overcome," says Tuttle.
"Everyone at the event is a leader in his or her respective country and operations. Each exercise required different skills and talents to be highlighted in order to be successful. It was beneficial from a leadership perspective to take a lower profile in some events and a higher profile in others," says Tuttle.
"This is an excellent test of true leadership," he says. "The teambuilding exercise resulted in camaraderie and a sense of respect and trust that you just don't see by hosting a generic, social event."
The group had to overcome many pitfalls during its safari-themed program. Each challenge presented leadership and teambuilding imperatives and was designed to give each participant hands-on exercises in communication, time management, detailed planning, resource management, influencing peers, organization, and out-of-the-box thinking.
Coming nose-to-nose with a live Florida alligator during one activity is something many will not soon forget. "This challenge not only put the participants in rare, up-close contact with an alligator, but it also combined the teaching points of attention to detail and pressure performance. Under the watchful eye of our Odyssey Rangers, the team learned how communication processes are affected when unexpected pressures are applied," explains Cherry.
The success of the experience can be attributed to intense planning, says Tuttle. "As with any business activity, the more you attend to goal setting and execution at the front end, the better your results will be," she explains. The program followed the theme of the entire meeting: Mission IS Possible.
"Although many were skeptical at first, you could see the teams form and build with each exercise. It was exciting to see the momentum build. By the end, everyone was pumped up. We established camaraderie as a group that is essential to getting goals accomplished throughout the year. We achieved a closeness with others we didn't know that well as we worked together to accomplish a goal that will help with organization activities throughout the year," says Tuttle.
No Ropes?
Surging in popularity are teambuilding activities that focus on social interaction rather than physical challenges. The intent is to get groups to relax with each other, interact, and work together to accomplish a specific task.
Ropes courses, which once soared in popularity, still have their place. Participants work their way up a series of obstacles, starting with low course elements (up to 3 feet off the ground), and progressing to high course elements (20 to 85 feet in the air). The perception of risk supposedly catalyzes individuals and groups to expand their comfort zones, solve problems effectively, and overcome fears.
Dick Eaton, founder and chief energizing officer for Medford, Mass. — based Leapfrog Innovations, is biased against ropes courses because of an experience he had as an advertising executive. "I went off-site with a client who was doing a ropes experience. One of the group members was a physically large person who was unable to participate. Despite a strong effort by the facilitator and support from his teammates, this person never fully re-engaged …, and his relationships with the others weakened as a result. I feel ropes courses are past their prime. Insightful clients use programming that is available to every participant regardless of physical orientation, willingness, strength, skill, or size. Good designs challenge them behaviorally and intellectually based on innovation and creativity."
Today, teambuilding is much more than swinging from a tree, shimmying up a pole, or playing volleyball. It is a well-thought-out process that has goals that must be achieved in order to be successful.
An Infusion of Fun
"Are we having fun yet?"
Not only does having fun help to reduce stress, it loosens us up and gets our creative juices flowing. Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, writes:
"Good moods enhance the ability to think flexibly and with more complexity, thus making it easier to find solutions to problems, whether intellectual or interpersonal. … Laughing, like elation, seems to help people think more broadly and associate more freely, noticing relationships that might have eluded them otherwise — a mental skill important not just in creativity, but in recognizing complex relationships and foreseeing the consequences of a given decision."
Looking for a less sober expert? "I like nonsense," said Theodore Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss). "It wakes up the brain cells."
An "expert" in the field of fun is Burt Rutan, legendary airplane designer and CEO of Scaled Composites, an aerospace operation with 125-plus employees.
"If you're having fun," said Burt in 1999, "you're more likely to be productive. … By putting the F-word up front, I've been able to attract talented people to work here even though they could make as much, if not more at, say, Lockheed or Boeing. Having fun is how I've managed to create a profitable company. … In the last five years, we've done four new-from-scratch airplanes … and I don't think that's good enough. I think we ought to be doing something more fun, something more challenging."
Five years later, in 2004, Scaled Composites won the Ansari X-Prize for being the first private company to launch a human into space and bring him back safely — twice in the same week.
Rutan's state of mind since winning the prize? According to chief engineer Matthew Gionta, "He's like a kid in a candy store. He's having more fun than he ever has."


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The use of contractors in most manufacturing plants and facilities has been a sore point with the skilled trades, particularly in a strong union environment. While some of this may be normal tension between the shop floor and contractors, particularly during a time of downsizing, the intensity appears to be growing as more contractors come into use. Further, many skilled trades working in chemical plants or other hazardous areas express concerns related to the training and capabilities of contractor personnel.
Are contractors appropriate for a given manufacturing organization? The answer is clearly yes. Contractors play an important role in most organizations. However, caution is urged for those organizations that are simply trying to cut costs, and therefore rely on lower head count and/or lower charge rates from contractors.
The real question is how do contractors support corporate goals related to manufacturing excellence, such as uptime, unit cost of production, safety performance, or maintenance cost as a percent of plant replacement value. What risk is run in using (or not using) contractors relative to these goals? What specific roles are best suited for contractors? How are these integrated into an overall strategy? Does a cost-cutting strategy work?
Cost-cutting strategy is weak
According to a Wall Street Journal article (7/5/95, pg 1) covering several hundred companies over a five-year period, a cost-cutting strategy has only a 50 percent chance of improving productivity and only a 33 percent chance of improving profitability. Similarly, "The Age," an Australian newspaper, reported on August 15, 1996, that the U.S. Conference Board noted that in those companies who have undergone major restructuring:
Does a cost-cutting strategy work? Perhaps, but not for most companies, according to these data. For example, a cost cutting strategy may be essential if a company is in dire straits. However, a more important question is what practices and processes should be put in place so that costs are not incurred in the first place. That is real and sustained cost cutting.
Some of the best companies long ago changed their focus from traditional cost cutting to managing their manufacturing processes to assure excellence. They also began to view maintenance as a reliability function, not a repair function, and as a core competency for manufacturing excellence. For example, in a presentation at a Strategic Industry Research Foundation meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in mid-1996, Vince Flynn, chairman of DuPont's Corporate Maintenance Leadership Team, stated:
"As a result of our global benchmarking efforts, we have shifted our focus from cost to equipment reliability and uptime.
"Maintenance's contribution to uptime is worth 10 times the potential for cost reduction. Realizing this tremendous resource has helped make uptime our driving focus for future competitiveness rather than merely cost reduction. Through our push for uptime, we want to increase our capital productivity 10 percent, from 80 to 90 percent, in the next several years.
"We value this 10 percent improvement as equivalent to $4 billion in new capital projects and replacement projects for the global chemicals and specialties portion of DuPont."
Replacing the maintenance function (or any function for that matter) with contractors may not be the proper strategic decision. For example, should a plant replace its operations function with contractors? Its engineering function? Its accounting function? Are these functions considered core competencies? Should not the years (perhaps decades) of experience developed by the maintenance function be considered a core competency?
When to use contractors
At many manufacturing organizations, maintenance is indeed coming to be viewed as a core competency for manufacturing excellence, which is as it should be. Given this, what is the proper use of contractors? Good contractors have a place in most organizations, and these points are offered as a model for when they should be used:
Further, contractors must be held to the same high standards as employees for safety performance, verifying the quality of their installation and commissioning work, and housekeeping at the conclusion of a job.
Potential conflict of interest
Consideration should be given to the potential inherent conflict in using contractors for maintenance. One of the goals with any business is to have it grow, and it is reasonable to conclude that a given contractor's goal is to increase its business by increasing revenue. As a result, there could be considerable temptation to increase the maintenance effort, rather than focus on long-term equipment reliability for reducing the maintenance effort (and revenues) over the long haul.
At the very least, the contractor's enthusiasm for reducing the long-term level of maintenance effort could be diminished by a desire to improve its own business.
This is not to say there is anything dishonest or wrong with this inherent desire. Indeed, in many organizations, the maintenance department often puts forth a large backlog as proof of the need to retain a given number of employees, sometimes without a careful analysis of why such a large backlog exists or of the benefit of actually doing a long overdue backlog. It is just human nature to want to protect one's job and/or to increase business, and caution should be exercised regarding this issue when hiring contractors.
Companies should also consider that a contractor may be less likely to have the same level of loyalty to the company as its employees, particularly if the management of a company exercises clear leadership and creates an environment supportive of mutual company-employee loyalty. Such a condition requires mutual trust and respect.
Properly organized and directed, a good operations and maintenance organization can offer greater loyalty to the company, and can outperform a contractor in core competencies over the long term. Measuring uptime or overall equipment efficiency, and defining the causes of losses from ideal performance, in a team environment with maintenance and operations working with a common sense of purpose and toward common goals is more likely to be successful when the company views operations and maintenance as a core competency.
Concurrently, however, employees within the organization must recognize that they are competing with contractors, and therefore must constantly seek to add greater value--better equipment reliability, higher uptime, lower unit cost of production, or improved safety--than might be done by a contractor.
Finally, it is recognized that this article does not cover all circumstances wherein contracting any given function may be appropriate, such as in a greenfield situation, or when costs are truly extraordinary, or in a situation of intransigence with several different unions at one site.
Applied judiciously and integrated with existing maintenance employees, contractors can make an exceptional addition to any manufacturing team, and they must be held to the same high standards as the balance of the organization, one which is hopefully seeking to achieve world-class performance. MT
Ron Moore is president and managing partner of The RM Group, Inc., 12024 Broadwood Dr., Knoxville, TN 37922; (423) 675-7647.
The following issues are among those that should be considered prior to engaging a contractor to perform major maintenance work:


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Chewie's the man.
the profile of that knife makes my wrist hurt, just looking at it. I really love the part where she is describing the knife as having no dragging or tearing, while cutting an eggplant in which it's clearly dragging a lot. Nice looking espresso machine, though!
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It didn't look that 'easy' to cut through that onion based on how her guide hand was shaking to hold said onion in place. Truth in advertising...
Today is as good a day to die as any. Except for tomorrow. I have plans tomorrow.
Can some one Edit that video to put her side by side with Saltys onion chopping vid?
The most amazing thing about that video is that for someone who grew up in Georgia, she has NO accent.
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She does, she's just trying to hide it. Another symptom of the normalizing of America. Don't show your differences!
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Probably spent a lot of $$$ on a voice coach so she could talk "right".
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"Hey broken-nose girl," the redoubtable Stew sang from the stage of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art on Saturday night, addressing Chicago, the commissioned topic of much of his pair of weekend performances. "I hear you're second to none. I don't know you, but I know you got a past."
Indeed we do, Stew. And it's always interesting to get the input of an outsider, a former club musician from Los Angeles now living in Brooklyn (via Amsterdam and Berlin, per Stew's autobiographical Broadway show, "Passing Strange"), and now in demand as a creator of city-specific shows after he and writing partner Heidi Rodewald started the ball rolling in Brooklyn.
The blending of Nelson Algren, poetic godfather of Chicago, with the current tourism slogan was, of course, a stew seasoned with snark. But it set me off thinking that, actually, Chicago could do worse than hire Stew as its official spokesperson, especially if it is looking to attract the cultural tourists of Brooklyn and other such urbane locales. For Stew is cool, funny and a guy who won't necessarily show up fully prepared, oh heavens no, but will most assuredly look at Chicago from a different angle. And we're supposed to be selling truth here, are we not?
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On Saturday, Stew (Rodewald was absent, having hurt her shoulder) ticked off the various attractions of Chicago, none of which he said he had previously known. The town, he said, has a "(s----y)" publicist, whereas his towns, Los Angeles and New York, have the cremes de la cremes. In fact, he suggested, his towns are pretty much entirely the creations of publicists, which is not that far from the truth. Here we traffic in more authenticity.
"Your mamma was red and your daddy was black," Stew sang of Chicago, admiringly, a bit later, presumably referencing Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the first non-native settler, and a French-Haitian. "Chicago," Stew sang, like a man with a discovery, "is a reluctant mulatto."
Chicago as reluctant mulatto: Don't look for that to appear in advertisements anytime soon. But it bears thinking about. Stew loves writing songs about race co-opting the language of discrimination. At one point Saturday, he called the topic a "Disneyland of material" and, it should be noted, he turned up with his terrific band, the Negro Problem, composed entirely of dweeby white guys.
But his often funny music (part satire, part psychedelic pop, part jazz, part R&B) lands in this same sweet spot of racial mash-up, allowing his notably savvy eye much freedom to roam. After wondering aloud why a city with high-rises next to beach had no surf culture, he created a surf song ("Surf Surf, Lake Shore Drive") replete with Rahm Emanuel kicking sand, Karen Lewis pulling up in a white dune buggy and rock critic Jim DeRogatis "flexing on Muscle Beach."
Nice. But the best Chicago piece in Stew's free-wheeling, rehearsal-like but carefully observed set was actually about the painter Archibald John Motley, Jr., considered to be a major contributor to the Harlem Renaissance but also an artist who lived and worked mostly in Chicago, and whose observations of jazz culture in this town ("Bronzeville at Night") are not spoken of or celebrated anywhere near enough. His should be the art in that tourism commercial: "He paints the space between black and white," Stew sang, which is right on the money.
Just one note, Stew. When you don't know a song yet, or screw it up, or change it as you go along or just start making funny stuff up, you can always cover your tracks in Chicago by calling it improv. It's part of our past, too, and we use it to cover up a multitude of sins.
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